Usually means: Person or device that receives.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. receiver: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. receiver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. receiver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. receiver: Collins English Dictionary
  5. receiver: Vocabulary.com
  6. Receiver, receiver: Wordnik
  7. receiver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. receiver: Wiktionary
  9. receiver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. receiver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. receiver: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. receiver: Dictionary.com
  13. receiver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Receiver (Information Theory), Receiver (fire arms), Receiver (firearms), Receiver (information theory), Receiver (legal), Receiver (radio), Receiver (statue), Receiver (video game), Receiver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Receiver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. receiver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. receiver: Rhymezone
  18. receiver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. receiver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. receiver: Free Dictionary
  21. receiver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. receiver: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. receiver: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. receiver: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. RECEIVER: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Receiver: bizterms.net
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. receiver: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Receiver: Investopedia
  13. Receiver: INSOLVENCY
  14. Receiver (Television), receiver: Legal dictionary
  15. Receiver: Financial dictionary
  16. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Receiver, receiver: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Receiver (Television), Receiver (radio), receiver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. receiver: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. receiver: Genealogy Glossary
  2. Receiver: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Receiver: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. receiver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. receiver: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Football Glossary (No longer online)
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  5. Receiver: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. receiver: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. receiver: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. RECEIVER: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who receives.
noun:  (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
noun:  A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
noun:  A person who accepts stolen goods.
noun:  A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
noun:  (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
noun:  (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
noun:  An item or apparatus that receives.
noun:  Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
noun:  (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
noun:  (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
noun:  (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
noun:  Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
noun:  The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
noun:  (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.

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